311, Lot: 766. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. 5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (5mm, 0.19 g, 5h). Head of eagle right / Wreath in incuse square. CNG 88, lot 340; Hauck & Aufhäuser 15, lot 164; otherwise unpublished. See also SNG Kayhan 746, Rosen 406, and Gemini IV, lot 180 for a larger denominations from the same issue. VF, find patina. Very rare.

From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Elsen 109 (18 June 2011), lot 176.

Although previously attributed to Themistokles in Gemini IV, K. Konuk notes (in SNG Kayhan 746) that A. Wenninger (who co-authored the study on Themistokles in JNG 1998/99) rejects the idea that these could be issues of that ruler. Similarly, although previously given to Magnesia in CNG 88 and Hauck & Aufhäuser 15, the known obverse types (head of eagle and head of lion) are not specific enough to assert such an attribution.